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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"vicarious learning"”.
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Vicarious Learning: The Relationship Between Perceived Leader Behavior and Work Group Member Behavior
The relationship between perceived leader behavior and work group behavior was examined. Archival survey data was used in the analyses. The company that developed the survey randomly selected 595 employees to complete the survey. Results suggest there is a strong and significant relationship …
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Vicarious learning and perceived self-efficacy among pre-licensure nursing students during pediatric end-of-life situations
… EOL situations. The literature has shown vicarious learning to provide students with opportunities to gain experience and knowledge through observation of their peers in simulated settings. This study specifically evaluated the effectiveness of vicarious versus active learning on …
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Dismantling the Patriarchy One "Pinkie Promise" At a Time: Women, Vicarious Learning and Female Politicians As Role Models
Senator Elizabeth Warren's and Vice President Kamala Harris' direct appeals to young girls inspired this dissertation's focus. Is it possible that their appeals, their attempts to challenge established gender norms of who should occupy the presidential office, will be successful in inspiring a new …
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The Mechanisms Underlying Olfactory Vicarious Fear Learning in Rats
Vicarious learning occurs when an “observer” animal, naïve to a conditioned stimulus, is in the presence of a “demonstrator” animal that has been conditioned to react to the stimulus. This project aimed to elucidate the mechanisms behind olfactory vicarious learning to an aversive cue; namely, how …
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Portrayals of Power: A Content Analysis of Gender Dominance in Magazine Advertisements
… subconsciously process the entire advertisement. Vicarious learning emphasizes that individuals not only learn from their own experiences but also from observing others. However, vicarious learning also influences the judgment and values of an individual. This study focuses on the portrayal of …
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Learning strategies and performance in organizational teams
(cont.) shows that vicarious learning is positively associated with performance. I argue that vicarious team learning is an under-explored dimension of what makes teams and organizations competitive. The chapter concludes by pointing toward a contingency theory of team learning in which the …
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An assessment of the missional model of graduate theological education: A case study
… of the faculty, and the global, communal learning environment fostered in the ESJ school. The educational environments ascertained were characterized by global, cross-cultural interactions and interchanges between students collectively with faculty members. The case study represented a …
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Knowledge Acquisition Processes: Understanding The Communication Event
… into Huber’s (1991) KA sub-processes (congenital learning, experimental learning, vicarious learning, grafting, and searching) and understanding the key elements (who, what, when, where, why, and how) of communication events. Organizational leaders and scholars of communication have a better …
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Principal Self-Efficacy Beliefs: What Factors Matter?
… These four sources of information are: mastery learning, vicarious learning, verbal persuasion, and emotional arousal. This multiple case study research examined the factors that influenced self-efficacy beliefs of elementary school principals prior to facing a personally meaningful challenge. …
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Depictions of Donation: A Thematic Analysis of Organ Donation Storylines in Television Medical Dramas
… Impacting Donation, Viewer Education via Vicarious Learning, and Excitement Surrounding Surgery. In addition to these themes, both favorable and unfavorable cues related to organ donation were present throughout the analysis. These findings have implications for audience members via social …
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Perceptions of Leader Development Programming by College Students with Introverted Personalities
… importance of close relationships as a source of vicarious learning, verbal encouragement, and as a steadying influence on emotional well-being for introverted students developing as leaders. Students value teaching as an optimal model for leadership. As they navigated the rigors of serving in …
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The Impact of Online Professional Development on Science Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs for Teaching Engineering Practices
… was designed to provide mastery experiences, vicarious learning, social persuasions, and emotional/affective support to improve these beliefs. Quantitative results showed no statistically significant changes between the treatment and control groups, but statistically significant improvements …
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Career decision learning experiences : development and validation of a scale
… of the factor structure of the Career Decision Learning Experiences scale (CDLE) based on Bandura’s (1977) Social Cognitive Theory and on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994). A 5-factor model was hypothesized based on the learning experiences proposed by Bandura …
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If She Can Do It, I Can Do It: An exploratory analysis of peer mentoring as an intervention strategy to increase exercise program adherence in sedentary adults with chronic health conditions
… to adhere to the exercise program, and provided vicarious learning opportunities that may have indirectly influenced exercise program adherence for intervention and mentor participants. Findings also suggest that the exercise program was highly influential to participants’ social support and …
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The virtual participant : story telling in a computer supported collaborative learning environment
… stimulated discussion amongst the students and vicarious learning could be said to have taken place. Taking the lessons learned from these two studies a number of guidelines for the development of such systems have been produced and are described and discussed.
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Exploring representations of, and attitudes towards, snakes in online media: an ethnozoological approach
… planning and wildlife public education programs. Vicarious learning can impact human attentional biases and fear acquisition associated with snakes; the portrayals of snakes across different media sources might impact the potential for human hostility and conservation resistance or acceptance. I …
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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN CONSUMERS’ DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN COSMETIC USE IN THAILAND
… than ever before. Nonetheless, social media-led learning processes of consumers are insufficient as well as understanding into how social media has transformed cosmetic consumption. This qualitative research aims to evaluate the role of social media in the development of skills and competencies …
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Essays on Technology-Mediated Training: Implications for Design and Evaluation
… operations and computer programming to learning about generic business processes. Using IT to assist training is broadly termed “Technology-Mediated Learning” (TML). Following the three essay model, this dissertation examines training interventions in the context of TML. In Essay 1, a …
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Responding To Student Disclosures: A Narrative Inquiry Of Online College Instructors’ Experiences Handling Disclosures Of Personal Trauma In Their Asynchronous Online Classrooms
… information in their college classrooms when learning about sensitive academic content; and as a result, these situations may trigger disclosure of previous and/or current personal traumatic experiences (Greener et. al., 1984; Lindecker et. al., 2021; Papadatou-Pastou et al., 2019). However, …
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The Relationship of Cooperative Education Exposure to Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Career Locus of Control
… information, namely performance accomplishments, vicarious learning (i.e, exposure to role models or mentors), and verbal persuasion (encouragement). Thus, college students having co-op work experience were expected to report significantly higher career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) …
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